ÿþ<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"><title>Timeline - 1886: Note</title></head> <body leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" footmargin="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0"> <LINK REL="StyleSheet" HREF="../texts.css" TYPE="text/css" MEDIA="screen"> <LINK REL="StyleSheet" HREF="../texts.css" TYPE="text/css" MEDIA="print"> <table summary="layout table" width="400" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" border="0"> <tr><td width="10%" BGCOLOR="A52A2A">.</td> <td width="90%"> <p>January. Vereshchagin explains his controversial art in a talk given before the opening of his exhibition in Budapest. The political ideas expressed shocked Stasov, who called the lecture  the pinnacle of confusion, nonsense and stupidity [25@E 15AB>;:>2>AB8, =5;5?>AB8 8 3;C?>AB8]. The speech was published as a supplement to the catalogue of Vereshchagin s exhibition in New York in 1891 under the title <a href="../../texts/ver/ver02/ver02.html" target="new">'Realism'</a> and republished in an abridged form in Russia in the same year.</p> <p>May. Vereshchagin published an article entitled <a href="../../texts/ver/ver01/ver01.html" target="new"> Du progr&#232;s dans l art </a> in <i>Nouvelle Revue</i>.</p> <p></p> <br><br> <br><br> <br><br> <br><br><br><br><a href="../timeline.html">Back to timeline</a></td></tr></table> </body></html>